Kurdish candidate for Syria’s parliamentary election vows to preserve Kurdish rights and constitutional recognition
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – A candidate for the Syrian Parliamentary elections from Hasakah governorate said she would work to achieve constitutional recognition of the political and cultural rights of the Kurdish people in Syria.
Berwin Ibrahim, a candidate of Kurdish origin for Syrian Parliamentary elections and head of the Youth for Construction and Change Party said in a press conference organized for her election campaign in the city of Qamishli on Wednesday that her party is as much as a Syrian national party. Its political program stipulates the need for constitutional recognition of the Kurdish issue and the participation of the Kurds in all sectors of the Syrian state.
In response to a question from North Press, she said she will work to secure services from the Syrian government for the region, despite the control of the Autonomous Administration of all municipalities, and she will press towards what the government can provide services to the region.
About the presence of a leader in her party who was responsible for the State Security detachment in the city of Sere Kaniye during the Kurdish uprising in 2004, where hundreds of young Kurds were arrested and tortured and at least one of the city's residents was killed, Ibrahim said she does not accept the presence of those who were involved in the torture of her people in the ranks of her party, and she will work to bring those who are found to be involved in these practices to trial.
Ibrahim, who enjoys strong political relations with Russia, indicated that she asked the Russians to press the Syrian government to resolve the issue of the wanted lists for the Syrian security as a goodwill initiative towards the Kurdish people, especially since a large number of them were included in the presidential amnesty several times.
Ibrahim, in her electoral program, promises to provide services, create jobs, and encourage national dialogue between Syrian communities and change the political situation through constitutional institutions.
Syria's Hasakah governorate has 14 seats in the Syrian Parliament, including eight for farmers and workers and six for the rest of the population.
All candidates' electoral programs focus on the necessity for concerted popular and social efforts to expel the US and Turkish occupations, rejecting all forms of division.
Omar Ose, a Syrian Kurdish MP and head of Damascus-based Syrian Kurds’ National Initiative (SKNI) said the final and only option left for the Syrian Kurds is the government, adding the United States would leave Syria soon.
"Syrian Kurdish groups should unite in the upcoming meetings with the government so that they guarantee their rights.”
During previous elections, the Kurds obtained three parliamentary seats: Fouad Aliko, Hamid Haj Darwish, and Kamal Ahmed Darwish. In Aleppo, Kurds obtained seven parliamentary seats.
However, more than three sessions of Parliament have passed, and the policy of exclusion of the Kurds and other minority groups continues.
(Additional reporting by Abdulhalim Suleiman, editing by Lucas Chapman)